| Storm blankets Nebraska after dumping on Colorado |
A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet precipitation downed power lines and made travel treacherous.
Updated: 06:37 PM
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| Suspect in police shooting says he feared for life |
A man accused of fatally shooting a police officer and wounding five others during an Ogden drug raid last month says he feared for his life because he thought people were breaking into his home to rob and kill him.
Updated: 06:37 PM
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| Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria |
The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China blocked a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for President Bashar Assad to step down. The double-veto outraged the U.S. and European council members who feared it would embolden the Assad regime.
Updated: 04:36 PM
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| 5.7 quake recorded off BC, no tsunami |
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has been recorded about 105 miles west of Ucluelet off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Updated: 04:07 PM
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| Minn. student suspended over Michael Jackson dance |
A Catholic school in Minnesota has suspended a 9-year-old boy for performing a crotch-grabbing Michael Jackson dance move during a fundraiser.
Updated: 04:07 PM
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| Nearly 20,000 pounds of chocolate lost in Pa. fire |
An official says a fire at a candy factory in southwestern Pennsylvania destroyed nearly 20,000 pounds of chocolate.
Updated: 04:07 PM
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| Dems want their candidate as Ind. elections chief |
While Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels held off Saturday on appointing a permanent replacement for the state elections chief convicted early that morning of voter fraud, Democrats said they planned to move quickly to wrest control of the politically powerful office from the GOP.
Updated: 04:07 PM
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| NJ museum finds recording of Otto von Bismarck |
For the first time, 21st-century audiences are able to hear the voice of Otto von Bismarck, one of the 19th century’s most important figures.
Updated: 04:07 PM
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| Lives intersect on deadly stretch of Fla. highway |
There was a single mom who loved to dance, in the car with a boyfriend who had moved from Virginia to be with her. A pastor and members of his family, originally from Brazil, returning home to Georgia from an Orlando church retreat. A father, his wife and his daughter headed south from the Panhandle for a family funeral. A young man coming home from bowling.
Updated: 04:07 PM
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| Pa. town ponders councilman’s arrest in old murder |
As a small town comes to grips with a 32-year-old murder, the talk isn’t just about a borough councilman being held without bond in a local jail.
Updated: 03:07 PM
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| US Army: Brigadier general has died in Afghanistan |
A 49-year-old brigadier general died Friday in Afghanistan of apparent natural causes, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. soldier to die there, the military said Saturday.
Updated: 02:36 PM
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| LA school reeling from arrest of 2nd teacher |
A bizarre case at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher was charged with taking bondage-style photographs of children has expanded with the arrest of a second teacher suspected of fondling two girls in his classroom.
Updated: 02:06 PM
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| Man gets DUI between applying for, getting pardon |
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and parole officials said Saturday that they didn’t know a man was charged with DUI after a fatal wreck that happened between the time he applied for a pardon and the time Barbour granted it.
Updated: 01:36 PM
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| Father: Beheading plot suspect a dedicated teacher |
Nevine Aly Elshiekh is a dog lover who teaches children with developmental disabilities. She is college-educated, well-respected by her neighbors and has no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket.
Updated: 01:36 PM
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| Ex-lacrosse player’s trial shines light on U.Va. |
In the nearly two years since a University of Virginia lacrosse player was charged with killing his ex-girlfriend, it’s become easier for possible abuse victims to get a restraining order and students must tell the school if they’ve ever been arrested.
Updated: 01:06 PM
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